Ohio State freshman defensive end Nathan Williams was arrested on Wednesday on a shoplifting charge outside of Dayton. He was charged with shoplifting three shirts valued at $80 from the Macy's department store in the Mall at Fairfield Commons. I am sad to report, I have not found evidence of a buckstache.After the arrest Williams claims "I took the blame for somebody; I didn't do anything." Apparently Williams was shopping with a friend, and as they walked out of the Macy's -- the store alarm went off. His friend then told him he had taken three shirts, and Williams agreed to hold them -- and surrender to the police. Williams has not named his friend, claiming "If he got in trouble for this, he would be in jail...So I took his back."
Brilliant.
This creates all kinds of questions in my mind:
- Why would Williams, a Buckeye football player take the blame and risk his scholarship and future on something he did not do ?
- Was his friend another football player ?
- Did he take the blame because he knew as an OSU football player he would be treated easier ?
- What was he doing shopping in Dayton during finals week ?
Williams was booked and released. He faces an arraignment hearing Tuesday in Municipal Court. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. If Williams is suspended, it will be a significant loss for the Buckeyes as he had worked his way into their defensive rotation and was making tackles.
Williams is the third Ohio State player arrested this year. On July 4, defensive back Eugene Clifford was charged with misdemeanor assault after a bar fight in Cincinnati. On July 26, defensive tackle Doug Worthington was charged with drunken driving on campus.
(HT: SiC)
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seeing how this guy is an actual player (and not a bench warmer), smart money says he never misses a down (excuse to be manufactured later).
BTW- earlier this week there was much hub-bub over the Boise State snub. one of the most prolific reasons for taking tosu was the $$$ buckeyes would spend. well, that may not have been such a good idea after all-
http://dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2008/12/12/SLOW_BOWL.ART_ART_12-12-08_A1_RCC7CPB.html?sid=101
nice to see the Fiesta Bowl hoist upon its own greedy petard...
bet $25 in "smart money" that, if convicted, he misses a down
deal?
money where your mouth is? or is it just fun to say it without believing it....
Given his current story.. he won't get convicted of anything before the bowl game. The court system does not work that fast.
Right now he has set himself up as some sort of friend-at-any-cost martyr.
I am guessing he will miss a couple of series against Navy in game #1 next year if this moves against him in the court system.
my offer to SIC is for the bowl game or next year
he won't take it though
excuses to follow
Dang! Nate is the ultimate friend and wingman. I took the shirts. I was going to donate them to the UAW in Michigan. My intentions were noble. Nate doesn't need to steal because he's paid under the table by Tre$$el and yet he took the rap for me. What a guy.
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 - 10
wv = mulag (as in mulag archipelago) Poor Nate. It's in the stars.
LOL @ Sru-
sure, you are absolutely right. if he's convicted (in like March???) he'll sit like the whole Navy game (shudder- how will they ever beat the Middies now!).
or maybe he'll miss the whole game against the Rockets? oh the humanity!
$25 says he doesn't miss a down of the bowl game or USC.
and Whets- good of you come forward. you're a modern day robin hood- stealing from almost bankrupt retailers and giving to soon to be unemployed autoworkers.
if only Senate Republicans had such compassion?
prior to being called out...
"seeing how this guy is an actual player (and not a bench warmer), smart money says he never misses a down"
after being called out...
"he'll sit like the whole Navy game (shudder- how will they ever beat the Middies now!).
or maybe he'll miss the whole game against the Rockets? oh the humanity!
$25 says he doesn't miss a down of the bowl game or USC."
now THAT is good comedy
i don't have to try to be witty when i can just quote SIC
well at least you got one thing right "excuse to be manufactured later"
it's a blog, not a brief, so not everything is written in extensive detail, citing time, place or extent?
but have you question my word?
for $25? it's a bet.
loser can pass the money along thru our hosts to preserve internet anonymity.
so, i'm taking your "calling out".
go fuck yourself you humorless cock.
Both of you need to take it easy.
We can not agree and still have fun.
ok dad. i'm sorry about the "humorless cock" stuff.
i still mean the "go fuck yourself" though.
(other brother steps in to egg on the fight)
YOU'RE A HUMORLESS COCK!!!
I haven't seen your cock laugh in a minute, yo!!!
ok, so maybe i went off half cocked?
i realize this is all just so much cyperspace but stuff like this ticks me off.
i made a statement about this criminal missing game time, then qualified about whether it was meaningful game time. Sru then goes off like i had just lied about WMDs because i qualified my statement.
except that's exactly the very first thing Sru did when HE commented:
"bet $25 in "smart money" that, IF CONVICTED, he misses a down"
he qualified my comment w/ "if convicted" and then called me out like i was some sort of liar for doing the exact same thing he had done.
and i consider that utter crap.
so i stand by my first statement- smart money says he never misses a down- Boone never did for a OMVI- regardless of the game.
qualify your bet all you want Sru- "convicted", "convicted on Tuesday", "convicted while NOT wearing a suit". whatever.
Whoa, doggg.
Can anyone get in this rumble or is it just for curmudgeons?
fwiw i said convicted on the slight chance that he actually was taking the fall for his buddy and the case was thrown out - you know the whole innocent til proven guilty thing
regardless, great to see the real you show up behind the internet anonymity
LOL @ Sru- twice in one string!
first, a qualification is a qualification- just because you think yours "makes sense", doesn't make it any less.
and i live very openly and notoriously amongst a flippin' million morons just like you.
the real me is on display every day. i wear my michigan shirt/tie every friday and i hear the bull shit from the janitor & the girl working the drive thru.
i have alumni stickers on my vehichle, and i've got the scratched fenders, bent wipers, and various other displays of cowardly violence to show for it.
what do you want? my name & address so you can drive by and do what??? i'm curious what you think you'd do?
when tre$$el sits the boy, i'll make arrangements to send you, directly or otherwise, $25. when that doesn't happen? yeah, i'll sit by the phone.
Whets- feel free to jump in and say something witty at any time.
or were you counting yourself as a curmudgeon???
"Whets- feel free to jump in and say something witty at any time.
or were you counting yourself as a curmudgeon???"
I love you
You love me
We're a happy family
With a great big hug
And a kiss from me to you
Won't you say you love me too?
Dude, take your hypertension meds. You're going to stroke out using that many punctuation marks.
but Whets! everyone knows the real value of internet anonymity is not having to worry about poor spelling & childish use of punctuation marks and CAPITAL letters!
and honestly, who's going to stroke? some michigan fan making fun of the umpteenth arrest of a tosu player?
or the poor, sad little tosu fan Sru, who feels it's his personal chore to log into a michigan blog and "police" michigan fans making fun of his "coach of discipline"?
anyone who WASN'T a tosu fan would see pretty quickly who has the bigger problem.
DID NOT! DID TOO!
I love this bar.
For the record, I went to Michigan a bunch, though not as a student.
Don't have a degree but would put my mind up against anyone here.
Ohh and I used to bag groceries with Tim Cunningham of the Spartans. Point is to ease up on the Janitors and the rest of us humanity. Seems Tims dad was a janitor with the state. I never met a nicer human.
SiC,
I've seen the pattern. One minute you're capitalizing and using copious amounts of question marks and then--BAM!!! Stoke. "He's fading, doctor..." Beeeeeeeeeeeep.
I will not allow that on my watch. Kick back, kiss your wife, hug your kids and think of all your blessings. Ahhhhhh.
Tom C.,
I hear you man. The character of a man is THE only thing that matters. Such a man continues to speak even in death.
Tom,
My apologies for not being clearer.
I never meant to abuse a janitor for being a janitor.
In Columbus, tosu fans feel @ liberty to abuse, verbally & sometimes physically, anyone who is a fan of a team tosu beats in football. They suffer from the delusion that the college football wins some how empowers them over others(like Sru)
I do admit that I find the office janitor talking trash to me, not because he's a janitor but because he thinks college football games makes him something other than a janitor.
Doesn't work that way for janitors, lawyers' or whatever it is that Sru doesm
oops. new Storm is great but i am having trouble handling columns when i'm in the browser (old crackberry just "stacked" everything; Storm lets you move left & right in the browser).
anyway, i accidently over edited that last comment. should have read:
"I do admit that I find the office janitor talking trash to me PRETTY FUNNY, not because he's a janitor but because he thinks a college football game makes him something other than a janitor."
FWIW.
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